‘Islands’ is the second album and live project from Worldwide Award-winning producers LV, and Benin City vocalist Josh Idehen, three years on from their critically acclaimed debut collaboration ‘Routes’. Where the ‘Routes’ album saw Josh’s voice used in fragments to examine themes of life in modern London, ‘Islands’ sees LV move Idehen’s lyrics and vocals front and centre. On ‘Imminent’, overheard whispers on an East London balcony tell the tale of an unforeseen demise, while on ‘Waiting For the Night’, Josh drew on honest reflections of his experiences after he returned from Nigeria. ‘Obsessed’ is about an unhealthy, social-media enabled reaction to being put in the post-coital friend-zone.. “Some of Josh's more poignant moments happen when the music pares back and his performance becomes the focus,” explain LV. Between Josh’s observational eye and LV’s considered yet dance-floor moving production style, with its funky hardware synth jams and live drums, delightful aesthetic contradictions abound on Islands. “Of course we always make one track at a time, but once you start to get a collection of tracks you start to see a bigger picture…”adds Wil LV. “There's a fair bit of improv when we're recording, but when it comes to putting tracks together, we're choosing to use certain things we've come up with over others because they hang together well thematically.” Lead single ‘Imminent’ has received huge support across BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and upon supplying the parts of the tune for a remix competition, LV were overwhelmed with over 120+ remixes. Of the album as a whole, the title track ‘Island’ is perhaps the most unexpected, and took some strength to find. Josh had been working on different versions of a story, until he had a moment of clarity. “I literally just thought, ‘you know what? I am just going to write what I feel is the funniest, darkest story that I would be happy to read,’ so that I felt comfortable with myself and not give a fuck about what anybody else thought.”